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In 1981 I'm not sure that it was so obvious that computers would take over the world, definitely not to the general public. For context, I was 10 years old at the time, and was the only kid in my school that owned a computer, a TI-99 that used a cassette drive as storage. It was so left-of-field to own a computer, that I remember not even really talking about it to my friends in school, because they had no context fo…
You're approximately 2 years older than me. Fast forward to the Commodore Christmas of 1985. Pretty much everyone I knew got a C_64 that year.Things changed quickly.
it's also very randomly skewed in time depending on your town/city...chicagoland and just a few years older than you guys, but our school district had gotten a few computers and so we saw them and started monkeying with them...and there were Radio Shacks in the area, and Bell Labs a few miles away (in Illinois, secondary site), so lots of math-ish parents. Just random circumstance from the view of a kid.